Hello,
I have a flow where i am closing all the covers in my home shortly before dusk. Because this flow might be doing more stuff I want to limit the execution of that to once per day only.
This is the flow:
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What is making me crazy is the actual action of closing the covers is executed, what it looks like, only once every 2 days!
I have read the documentation of the delay node and looks like my understanding is correct - 1 per day means once between 00:00 and 23:59 (more or less) - not once every 24h - but the end result is not what i expect. I could have an inject node that is sending reset signal to the delay node at midnight - but i want to understand what, the heck, is going on before I implement any workarounds.
thanks!
